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 * **Republic of Korea-** before the Korean war in 1948 the United States sponsored a democratic nation
 * **People's Democratic Republic of Korea-** north of the Republic of Korea, the Soviets established this nation after the Korean War
 * **Korean War-** a series of battles during the Cold War between the U.S. and USSR- the north attacked the South in 1950- and eventually the war came to a stalemate in 1953
 * after the 1950s there was an economic boom in Japan
 * by 1983 their GNP equaled the combined totals of China, both Koreas, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Australia, and Brazil
 * Japan became one of the top two or three economic powers in the world
 * Japan tried to stop outside influence from reaching their nation
 * Hong Kong became a major world port and became part of China in the 1990s